[Devel] Re: Remote processing of core dump

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Dave,
> 
> could you please advise is it possible to process core dump remotely?

No, not any more.

Actually I did implement that capability several years ago, where you
could build a remote "crashd" daemon that you could connect to in order 
to access dumpfiles or /dev/mem on a remote system.  But it languished due
to lack of interest and the preference/speed-superiority of using NFS,
and so it has long since been deprecated.  The code still sits there in 
the sources, in remote.c.

Dave

> Currently for investigation of kernel crashes on customer nodes I
> need either download coredump to local node or upload debug symbols
> to remote node. This may not be quite convenient for various
> reasons.
> 
> Is it possible to use gdbserver-like functionality with crash?
> 
> IMHO it would be great to start crash utility locally, with debug
> symbols but without core dump file, and then connect to gdbserver on
> remote node attached to core dump file.
> 
> Thank you,
> 	Vasily Averin